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So there is a lack of a thread that is about articles or videos anything that could be interesting to other NT's. And please members of the Zeitgeist Movement this is not your chance to spam the thread with posts. This is not meant to be just about Science/technology anything could be interesting

We will start a little light with a documentary I enjoyed watching, it is 9 years old though. If any one has new info on this please Im quite interested in something on the subject.

Thanks for this thread!! I think this is a wonderful addition. If nothing else, the internet has allowed us the ease to sift and filter information, and to share that filtered "gold" with others of like mind.

"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible." — Richard P. Feynman
"Never tell a person a thing is impossible. G*d/the Universe may have been waiting all this time for someone ignorant enough of the impossibility to do just that thing." author unknown

This is a review paper by T.J. Bouchard, Jr. and J.C. Leohlin from 2001. It suggests that personality traits are a part of genetic heritability and natural selection for how a species might be able to withstand and cope with their environment. Based on this standpoint of the genetic heritability of behavioral traits, Bouchard and Leohlin argue that behavioral analysis cannot be fully complete without acknowledging behavioral genetics.

This is a review paper by T.J. Bouchard, Jr. and J.C. Leohlin from 2001. It suggests that personality traits are a part of genetic heritability and natural selection for how a species might be able to withstand and cope with their environment. Based on this standpoint of the genetic heritability of behavioral traits, Bouchard and Leohlin argue that behavioral analysis cannot be fully complete without acknowledging behavioral genetics.

Thats exactly what we where talking about a few days ago, thank you I will look into this.

This is a review paper by T.J. Bouchard, Jr. and J.C. Leohlin from 2001. It suggests that personality traits are a part of genetic heritability and natural selection for how a species might be able to withstand and cope with their environment. Based on this standpoint of the genetic heritability of behavioral traits, Bouchard and Leohlin argue that behavioral analysis cannot be fully complete without acknowledging behavioral genetics.

Thanks for this - interesting that this could be obliquely related to the map of global distribution of average IQ that was posted a few days ago???

I look forward to reading this

"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible." — Richard P. Feynman
"Never tell a person a thing is impossible. G*d/the Universe may have been waiting all this time for someone ignorant enough of the impossibility to do just that thing." author unknown

is ALSO very interesting, because it talks about how personality traits could link in to evolution! This was a cross-species review by S. D. Gosling and O.P. John of 19 papers across 12 nonhuman animal species in 1999, to see if observable personality traits in animals resembled the Big Five traits found in the NEO-PI-R: Neuroticism, Agreeableness, Extroversion, Openness, and Conscientiousness. Of the 12 species reviewed, only the Chimpanzee had clear behavioral traits resembling conscientiousness, suggesting that this might have been a later developing evolutionary trait (possibly linked to intelligence??). Dominance was found to be identified as a separate trait in 7 of the 12 species, and was suggested to be held as an identifying trait in further personality studies of animals.

Therefore, dominance and aggression could have evolved into agreeableness and conscientiousness. Benevolence as a means by which to have a strong society and successful development of the species??